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  1. Bug #1175637
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1175637

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Stephen Jahl (sjahl) wrote : Re: [Bug 1175637] [NEW] Kernel updates are being marked as manually installed

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:20:06PM -0000, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>
> Yes that is my mistake, the cleanup does not change the marking at
> all. If they are currently manual you will have to mark them
> auto-installed to have the cleanup work. If upgrading
> 'linux-image-generic' leaves you with a linux-image that is marked
> manual, that is of course a problem.
>
> How do you upgrade the systems, in your original message you mention
> aptitude and unattended-upgrades?
>

In most cases, I've got unattended-upgrades running. I thought I saw
this on another system with just a regular 'apt-get dist-upgrade', but I'll
fire up some VMs and see if I can reproduce it there.